TNT’s “Rich & Shameless” seven-part film series will launch this summer, but the first installment, “The Crime Against Pam & Tommy,” is debuting this Saturday. And the sooner the better for director Jenny Popplewell, who wants the movie to “settle the truth” for Pamela Anderson about her sex tape with ex Tommy Lee, which Popplewell called “revenge porn before we knew it was revenge porn.”
“We reached out to Pamela Anderson right from the start and to Tommy and asked them if they’d like to be involved,” Popplewell said alongside “Rich & Shameless” showrunner and producer Tom Lindley during a Television Critics Association panel Monday. “And we heard back through their representatives that that’s just a period of their time that they’re not interested in looking at again. But there were people that we invited into the film who were very close to Pam and Tommy, who had been...
“We reached out to Pamela Anderson right from the start and to Tommy and asked them if they’d like to be involved,” Popplewell said alongside “Rich & Shameless” showrunner and producer Tom Lindley during a Television Critics Association panel Monday. “And we heard back through their representatives that that’s just a period of their time that they’re not interested in looking at again. But there were people that we invited into the film who were very close to Pam and Tommy, who had been...
- 2/14/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
TNT has found its Rich People Problems (w/t).
The WarnerMedia-owned cable network has ordered the series from Raw TV, the production company behind breakout doc hits including feature doc Three Identical Strangers and Netflix’s Don’t F*** With Cats.
The series reveals the untold true stories of greed, power and betrayal that lie beneath the façade of the wealthy and famous.
Using startling, personal interviews and unseen archive each of the eight unique films will expose the lies, lusts, deceptions and deceit that lurk in the shadows of bulging bank accounts, private islands, TV fame and beautiful people. Viewers will be taken on a journey of twists, turns, surprises and revelations about how the glitter of wealth and lure of power can leave a trail of destruction. But when’s that ever stopped anyone trying to have them?
The series will launch on Front Row on TNT,...
The WarnerMedia-owned cable network has ordered the series from Raw TV, the production company behind breakout doc hits including feature doc Three Identical Strangers and Netflix’s Don’t F*** With Cats.
The series reveals the untold true stories of greed, power and betrayal that lie beneath the façade of the wealthy and famous.
Using startling, personal interviews and unseen archive each of the eight unique films will expose the lies, lusts, deceptions and deceit that lurk in the shadows of bulging bank accounts, private islands, TV fame and beautiful people. Viewers will be taken on a journey of twists, turns, surprises and revelations about how the glitter of wealth and lure of power can leave a trail of destruction. But when’s that ever stopped anyone trying to have them?
The series will launch on Front Row on TNT,...
- 5/19/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
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